Beethoven’s concerto for three instruments, composed for the master’s most important and prestigious student, Archduke Rudolf, brings together three fine soloists in order for the most wonderful harmony to devolve out of their rivalry. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 is also about harmony, albeit in a different way. The work composed in 1944 is the music of optimism. The fact that the author received the Stalin Prize for it does not detract in any way from its magnificent musical worth. The three principal parts of the Beethoven work are taken by Liszt Prize laureate Vilmos Szabadi, Kossuth prize-winner Jenő Jandó (both professors at the Liszt Academy), and Ildikó Szabó, a rising star amongst the youngest generation of cellists.